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An Invitation. Plus, A White Bongo Photo

(posted January 13, 2006)

The all-important Safari Club International Convention is next week, and I want to take this opportunity to invite you to come by The Hunting Report booth. Our booth number is 3914.

I have a new product I want to show you - the first in a series of Hunting Report Dictionaries and Phrase Books, this one in Spanish. But more important than that, I just like to meet subscribers, shake their hands and hear what they are up to. I'm particularly eager to thank all of you who inquired about my well-being and wished me well after my accident in Africa last May. I couldn't help but recover with so many friends out there wishing me well.

While you are at the booth, you may want to renew your subscription, rent a satellite phone, sign up for medical evacuation service and buy some maps and a book or two. We'll have our entire database with us in electronic form so you can do on-the-spot background checks of outfitters you are interested in. The service, of course, will be free to paid subscribers. Ask Edi Bell or Barbara Crown to help you if I am not there.

On another matter, we just received a remarkable photograph here at The Hunting Report of a white, or albino, bongo. It was sent to us by Jean-Pierre Bernon of Club Faune. He says one of his PHs took the photograph this season in the N'goumiri area of Central African Republic. He estimates the size of the animal as about 32 inches. Bernon will have a booth at SCI. How would a white bongo look in your trophy room? Click here to view the photograph.

Finally, I think I should weigh in again on the situation in Zimbabwe. As I told you in my last e-mail bulletin, recent reports that the US government is about to ban hunting in Zimbabwe are simply wrong. There is no move underway to stop American hunters from doing anything in Zimbabwe except enter into commercial transactions with a limited number of so-called banned individuals. You can get a list of banned individuals by clicking here.

In my last bulletin, I did note that the US State Department is going to add to the current list of banned individuals from time to time and augment it by listing specific properties and lodges. It is this note that perhaps has caused a flurry of e-mails in recent days about an imminent revision and expansion of the banned list, perhaps even before the SCI Convention. One e-mail we saw warned Zimbabwe professional hunters to check the US Embassy web site in Harare before getting on the plane to Reno.

This last-minute concern is completely groundless. We know because we talked directly with the individual who is in charge of maintaining the banned list. His reaction to my question ("Is the banned list going to be revised next week?") was, "Heavens no. A revision would take months." He mentioned May as a probable date.

The upshot is, Zimbabwe professionals and clients alike can both relax. The US government is not about to bring the curtain down on hunting in that country. Enjoy the convention and come by and see us! - Don Causey.

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